(Detroit News) Grooms pay more money for brides who have undergone female genital mutilation, a religious practice central to a rare criminal case involving a small Muslim sect from India, according to a victims’ rights group. The claim was included in a […]
(SD Union-Tribune) A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by parents to shut down San Diego Unified School District’s anti-Islamophobia efforts, saying that they could not prove that the district’s program was unconstitutional and favored Islam over other religions. While Tuesday’s […]
(IPT) When police officers in America shoot unarmed black people, Jewish hands lurk in the background. So says Linda Sarsour, perhaps the most visible Muslim political advocate in the United States — a co-chair of the national Women’s March and a campaign […]
(AP) Minnesota’s Democratic Party chairman said Monday that he expects an investigation of allegations of physical abuse against Rep. Keith Ellison to be completed and released soon, well ahead of the November election. A former long-term girlfriend accused Ellison of physical abuse […]
(Daily Caller) Minnesota Democrats’ self-described “independent” investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Keith Ellison is being handled by the party attorney’s legal partner. Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee and nominee for Minnesota attorney general, is accused of […]
(Times of San Diego) Attorney General Jeff Sessions “better” be fired after the November election. Rod Rosenstein, his apparent lame-duck deputy, has been part of a “coup” since before Donald Trump’s election. The president’s border wall has “nothing to do with illegal […]
(Daily Caller) The Turkish government plans to continue “operations,” including in the United States, against supporters of a political opponent of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a top adviser to the Turkish president said Friday. Speaking to reporters ahead of Erdogan’s trip this week to […]
(IPT) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invited Nihad Awad, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) executive director, to meet with them in New York during this week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting. “It’s not about photo ops for […]
(VOA) A very late election night victory rally in Michigan for candidate Rashida Tlaib on Aug. 7, followed a week later by an election night victory rally in Minnesota for candidate Ilhan Omar, marked an inflection point in American politics. The two, […]
(Politico) Ron DeSantis, frustrated with questions about racists and accused bigots backing him, went on the counterattack Monday and said that his Democratic opponent in the Florida governor’s race has “anti-Semites around him.” DeSantis focused his criticisms on two groups: Dream Defenders, […]
(Daily Caller) The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the Minnesota arm of the Democratic Party, concluded its investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Keith Ellison two weeks ago, Karen Monahan told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Sunday. Monahan, a Sierra Club activist and […]
(Fox) U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison pushed back Friday against allegations of domestic abuse, saying his accuser fabricated the story about him. The Minnesota Democrat also dismissed a medical record that named him as the abuser, but said he can’t be sure more […]
(AP) The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women’s dress and most likely to be portrayed as drab and restrictive to the Western eye. But a new exhibition in San Francisco shows that the covering used by some […]
(Politico) Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Brett Kavanaugh is ricocheting back on a Democrat who has faced his own allegations but, ostensibly, has nothing to do with the Supreme Court fight: Rep. Keith Ellison, the candidate for Minnesota attorney general and deputy […]
(Fox) Google is in the spotlight after internal emails show conversations between employees highlighting a desire to manipulate search results on the heels of President Trump’s controversial travel ban in order to mute conservative viewpoints and push ways to combat the ban. […]
(Oregonian) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit brought by a former Portland resident who alleged the government violated his due process rights by placing him on the no-fly list without notice. The appeals panel found that a […]
(USA Today) How did a former undercover CIA operative who spent more than eight years fighting terrorism get branded as a teacher at “Terror High”? The strange ordeal for Abigail Spanberger, a Democratic House candidate, began when U.S. Postal Service employees wrongly delivered her confidential personnel […]
(Daily Caller) The ex-girlfriend accusing Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic abuse told her doctor in 2017 about alleged “emotional and physical abuse” from Ellison, according to a document the woman published Wednesday. Karen Monahan’s account in the doctor’s report is […]
(Detroit News) A civil rights advocacy group has filed a federal complaint against DTE Energy on behalf of a former worker who alleges he faced discrimination and unfair discipline by a supervisor over his religious rituals. According to a grievance that the […]
(KCAL) A Muslim woman suspected of committing crimes in Monrovia had a message for the police officers who confronted and questioned her, and her response isn’t what most people would expect. For Esma Ali, she said she had to thank the Monrovia […]
(IPT) A recent report on Islamophobia published by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) appears to affirm its common cause with a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) effort to change public school curricula and staff training in the name of stopping Islamophobia. […]
(Detroit News) Amor Ftouhi, a Tunisian national accused of stabbing a police officer during a terrorist attack at Bishop International Airport in Flint last year, will undergo psychiatric tests, a move that raises doubt about whether he will stand trial in November. […]
(MPR) Dogged by a recent allegation of domestic abuse, Democrat Keith Ellison has a narrow, five-point lead over Republican candidate Doug Wardlow in the race to be Minnesota’s next attorney general, according to an MPR News/Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Of 800 likely […]
(Hill) Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday went after the Trump administration for its failure to consult with Congress before proposing to slash the number of refugees the U.S. will accept next year. Grassley, who’s chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the […]
(Clarion) A Shiite Islamist group in Arizona hosts a supporter of the Iran regime and Hezbollah terrorists. Coming out of Mesa, Arizona, the group turned its back on Iranians protesting the theocracy earlier this month by hosting a sheikh who supports the Iranian […]
(Politico) The Trump administration will admit no more than 30,000 refugees to the U.S. in the coming year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, down from the current cap of 45,000. Pompeo announced the lowered ceiling during a press conference Monday at […]
(Hill) Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday sparred over Rep. Keith Ellison’s (D-Minn.) association with Louis Farrakhan. “Is it that he’s black or that he’s Muslim that makes you hate/fear him so much?” Pocan asked Trump Jr. on Twitter after […]
(Detroit Free Press) The week before Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a Lebanese-American group in Dearborn $500,000 as part of a government effort to counter violent extremism known as CVE. The department also gave […]
(Denver Post) A Fort Morgan meatpacking plant and the union that represents its employees will pay settlements to Muslim workers whose civil rights were violated when they were denied prayer breaks and then fired after they complained. Cargill Meat Solutions will pay […]
(BuzzFeed) Twitter has come under fire for allowing a tweet that activists have said is pro–female genital mutilation to be promoted on its site, meaning that it showed up on the timelines of users who didn’t follow the poster’s account. The tweet, […]
(Denver Post) A federal judge sided with one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers in a bench judgment requiring the Federal Bureau of Prisons to hire a food vendor to provide meals that meet his specific Muslim diet requirements. R. Brooke […]
(Washington Post) Eighteen former counterterrorism officials are urging the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to retract or correct a report that implies a link between terrorism and immigration, calling its findings “misleading” and counterproductive. Released in January, the report says that […]
(AP) An automobile mechanic has been charged with lying to federal agents who were investigating his shipments of medical supplies to his native Pakistan. Farheed Ahmed Khan, 60, of Manchester, was indicted by a grand jury Sept. 6 on one count of […]
(Detroit News) The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, advocacy groups and separated families are renewing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order barring travelers from some countries with majority Muslim populations. The amended complaint filed Thursday in Detroit’s U.S. […]
(Breitbart) Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum delivered an in-person welcome and message of encouragement to attendees at an event organized by the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that boasted as one of its main two agenda items support for the […]
(NJ Herald) On a day of mourning for the 3,000 people killed on Sept, 11, 2001, by Islamic terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden, a middle school social studies teacher allegedly decided to skip that part of the discussion Tuesday and instead […]
(Federalist) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January and July of 2017 on Islamism and what he believes is its antidote, the Muslim reform movement. This is a follow-up interview. Jasser is president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for […]
(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors filed new charges in the nation’s first case involving female genital mutilation, accusing one doctor of mutilating three more prepubescent girls and alleging one girl was drugged. The new charges bring to a total of nine girls from three states […]
(Kansas City Star) A civil rights group said Wednesday that a Muslim woman is facing religious discrimination at a privately run prison in Leavenworth. The prisoner, Valeriece Ealom, has complained that staff at the Leavenworth Detention Center have repeatedly disparaged her wearing […]
(Washington Post) The battle for Republican Dave Brat’s suburban Richmond congressional seat has spawned a flurry of TV ads on a subject few saw coming as the midterms kicked off: Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s substitute-teaching job at a Saudi-funded Islamic school in Northern […]
(Taos News) A grand jury in Albuquerque indicted Jany Leveille, 35, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, [Subhanah] Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, on federal charges Tuesday (Sept. 11), according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and […]
(Christian Post) A community of self-described “revivalist” Muslims is hosting an annual blood drive on the anniversary of 9/11 to demonstrate the opposite of what was done in the name of their faith 17 years ago. In the foyer of the Rayburn […]
(IPT) Like most Islamist gatherings, “Islamophobia” was a big topic at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)’s annual convention during Labor Day weekend. For example, author Khaled Beydoun linked Islamophobia’s origins to white supremacy, while pollster Dalia Mogahed cited concern over […]
(BuzzFeed) Anwar Khalifa is about as Texan as you can get. He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front. He never skips “worship day,” he taught his three daughters to […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic congressional candidate Ayanna Pressley appeared outside a mosque that has played host to numerous radical figures during her primary campaign this year. Dr. Wesley Muhammad gave a lecture at Boston’s Muhammad Mosque No. 11 in February entitled “The Secret […]
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(Free Beacon) Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib was featured at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual conference alongside numerous radical figures, including individuals who have defended terrorist groups, openly called for violence against Israel, and pushed for extreme punishments for homosexuals. Tlaib […]
(Queens Chronicle) In many other parts of the world, the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam has been targeted and persecuted. But in the Holliswood section of eastern Queens, it has found loving neighbors. Last Friday, about 200 people came to a ceremony at […]
(Detroit News) As many as six members of a Muslim sect from India were questioned by a federal grand jury Wednesday as prosecutors pursue more criminal charges involving new girls in the nation’s first female genital mutilation case. The grand jury appearances by members […]
(Daily Wire) Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be in danger of losing some of her support among liberals with her decision to increasingly align herself with anti-liberal activist Linda Sarsour. The Democratic candidate’s rift with her liberal supporters really showed itself […]
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